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Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an Hour, is captivating tale telling the story of all the different conflicting emotions and revelations a human can experience given a grave situation. Although short in length this story does not lack depth and is charged with ominous overtones. The Story of an Hour speaks true the dilemma women…

To trust there is a possibility for a better outcome. To dream and have courage to believe it is possible. To have faith in powers beyond own control. All these concepts relate to hope. Emily Dickinson uses her poem, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” to show that hope is contained in the soul of…

Since I before exist on this world, the legend of Romeo and Juliet reaction paper touches the heart of every lovers. They serve as the role model of truelove and sacrifice. A fairytale that even had a tragic ending, still consider as a happily ever after. No one can separate them even the death. The story…

Black people come in all different shades, and because we look different we get discriminated against differently. Colorism is the racist belief that light skinned is good and dark skinned is bad. This goes all the way back to slavery days when the white man used to separate us by color placing the light skinned…

“And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost explains in his poem ​The Road Not Taken​, the direction we do not choose in our life is the road not taken and that will make all the difference in our destination. Robert Frost explains his thoughts about the option he had left in the past….

In the opening poems of Drum Taps, Whitman has a patriotic tone which shows the audience that war was not only necessary, but that people’s lives were just small price to pay to ensure people’s safety back home. Whitman, along with Melville, does recognize that war does come with a price but, the price comes…

Throughout this passage from Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen utilises various narrative techniques. These include dialogic qualities (showing) and the use of third person narrative including focalisation and free indirect speech (telling). Both showing and telling work on different levels to further the reader’s interpretation of different characters and give meaning to the novel as…

In class, we had the opportunity to watch “Anne Frank” the movie, and a while back we heard the play. The “Anne Frank” play was very similar to the “Anne Frank” movie, but they also had some differences which made them different from each other. For example, by watching the movie, we hear that the…

Hospitality was one of the most important things in ancient Greek society. It was necessary for survival because travelers and warriors had to rely on other to help them out as they were going from place to place. It was a very common practice because almost everyone in that society had to, at one point,…

Approximately 400 years ago, between 1599-1601 Shakespeare wrote a play known as Hamlet. It is set in Kingdom. Prince Hamlet the main character of the play wants to seek revenge against his uncle, who killed his father to seize the throne and later marry his mother. People to this day still wonder why hamlet four…